“Another University Is Possible”: Thoughts on Student Protests and Universities in Postcolonial Africa
The modern university is an efficient site for the neoliberal commoditizing of knowledge....
Desiree Lewis has also been active in developing feminist intellectual activist networks throughout Africa; within South Africa, and in the Western Cape. She undertook research and editorial work on feminist networking and knowledge production at the African Gender Institute between 2001 and 2003; taught course on feminist theory and epistemology for postgraduate students in the Zimbabwean-based network, SAPES between 1993 and 2005; has participated in webinars, workshops, and seminars on gender, race and sexualities in South Africa, produces accessible writings on and mentors new writers’ work on feminism and gender. She is the author of Living on a Horizon: Bessie Head and the Politics of Imagining, among other publications.
The modern university is an efficient site for the neoliberal commoditizing of knowledge....
As a fundamental human desire, the power to imagine new worlds that explode existing ones through gender performance and symbolism is universal....